Sentences with phrase «in a landslide on»

Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.

Similar to Zephyr Teachout, who challenged Cuomo from the party's left in a September primary, Hawkins has no chance at winning, but he does threaten to upset the governor's quest to win in a landslide on the order of, say, 65 percent.

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In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide voteIn a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votein landslide votes.

In short, even if he gets it legalized overnight there will be a landslide of new and recently legalized pot products the likes of which have not been seen since the repeal of prohibition and its affect on the liquor industry.

Shares of Twitter were tanking in premarket trading on Thursday after forward guidance missed expectations by a landslide and quarterly revenue was far below estimates.

Elliott's winning ways are in stark contrast to many of its activist peers, whose recent attempts to take on Fortune 500 companies have failed miserably, from Bill Ackman's landslide loss in a proxy contest with ADP (adp), to Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn's strikeout at General Motors (gm) earlier this year.

While most lawmakers and politicians haven't crafted formal statements yet (expect a landslide of those on Monday), a few are weighing in.

But with polls showing Kenney's United Conservatives on the path toward landslide victory in 2019, the NDP needs some massive changes in the next 12 months to make Albertans fall in love with them all over again.

Greece delivered a landslide no vote to the eurozone's terms for the country remaining in the single currency on Sunday night, unleashing a seismic political shift that could derail the European project.

If he had been for it, Obama could go on vacation till next January and win in a landslide... you are HYSTERICAL tho!

Not because I think he is a good Christian, in fact, given his knowledge of Satan's inner thoughts, he is likely to sit on his (Satan's) right hand side (a.k.a. the anti-Christ) but because if he is nominated, President Obama, the only true Christian amongst those running for the office of the Presidency of the United States in 2012, will win in a landslide.

President Obama will jump on the bandwagon and replace VP Joe Biden with Keith Ellison as his running mate, guaranteeing his re-election in a landslide victory in November.

Reflecting on the unhappy fruits of following the path of exclusion, as America has largely continued to do, he labors in face of the landslide to re-anchor hope in Christian hearts.

Lauren LaRocco — The senior led the St. Francis - Sacramento girls cross country team to a landslide victory at the De La Salle / Carondelet Nike Invitational in Concord on Sept. 15.

This weekend, the Nittany lions head to THEE Ohio State University to take on the Buckeyes in a big - 10 brouhaha that is currently the most heavily bet game of the weekend by a landslide.

Are you placing a bet on Trump now knowing his odds are sure to skyrocket following a landslide victory in New York?

The Gunners used up all their bad luck in last weeks game against West Brom, but now with injuries easing and the extra confidence gained from being on the brink of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League, I can see a landslide win for Arsenal.

To be able to field a footballer who is always up for a fight on the pitch — to be the leader and take responsibilities in a way he has done at Arsenal could prove vital for any football club, especially at the top end of the Premier League where the stakes are so high that one slip - up could lead to a landslide.

General election 1945Clement Atlee's landslide victory in July 1945 came as a complete surprise to the Conservatives who were hoping to capitalise on Winston Churchill's hugely successful period as Britain's wartime coalition prime minister.

Under a uniform national swing, fighting seats on the current boundaries in a first - past - the - post electoral system, that would result in a landslide for Theresa May, according to the Electoral Calculus website.

In third place is a report on a new poll which showed that the Labour candidate for mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was on course for a landslide win over his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

Smith, on the other hand, lost by more than 50 percentage points in a landslide.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

In 2006, Baker served as deputy communications director on Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's landslide victory that returned the governor's mansion to the Democrats for the first time in 16 yearIn 2006, Baker served as deputy communications director on Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's landslide victory that returned the governor's mansion to the Democrats for the first time in 16 yearin 16 years.

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

Walsh won the Independence Party primary by a landslide, and he wasn't even on the ballot — he did it with write - in votes.

Mr Salter, who entered parliament as part of Labour's landslide victory in 1997, said he wanted to be free to work with Labour back benchers to put forward «positive proposals» on education reform.

Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw, on his way to a second term in office, is calling his win by more than 21 - thousand votes a landslide compared to other county - wide races.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

Add to this the political and legislative workload involved in devolving further powers to Scotland — and potentially revisiting the Smith Commission proposals in the process due to the SNP landslide — while also crafting a working arrangement for English votes for English laws, and it's obvious that the government has more than enough to be going on with as far as constitutional politics is concerned.

After winning in two landslides statewide for her U.S. Senate seat, the emphasis on those issues appears to have been a success.

The party arrived in office in 1997 with almost no commitments on European issues and with very few MPs (in its landslide majority) with any kind of clear position on Europe.

Labour also remain the largest party in the Welsh Assembly — losing just a single seat - and are on course to win back London by a landslide.

If women vote that way on Nov. 4, Gibson wins in a landslide.

On Monday, Christie said he's repeatedly told candidates he doesn't «pay for landslides» and he doesn't «invest in lost causes.»

«We don't invest in landslides,» he said, which was certainly not true in his own case: The RGA spent roughly $ 1.7 million on Christie's landslide victory over Democrat Barbara Buono in 2013 — a race he more than likely would have won handily without such excessive spending.

Ukip poised to inflict humiliating defeat on Tories in Clacton by - election as Nigel Farage warns of «landslide victory» 31 August 2014

On the table is # 1,000 from a former prime minister who won three landslide elections for your party, a man who took the Labour party above 50 % in the opinion polls prior to 1997, compared to its current 32 % - 35 %.

In third place is a report on a new poll which showed that Jeremy Corbyn was heading for a landslide victory over Owen Smith.

Mostly on the strength of his support in western New York, Paladino nabbed the Republican nomination in a landslide.

Cuomo, elected in a landslide, can point to a successful six months in office: a property - tax cap, an on - time budget that closed a deficit without increasing taxes and the passage of same - sex marriage.

After a landslide defeat in the election on 1 May 1997, John Major resigned on the morning of 2 May.

At least 49 people have been killed after a landslide swept through a fishing village on the banks of Lake Albert in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

[27] On September 12, 2006, in the Republican Primary for New York's 99th District, Ball defeated Stephens in a landslide with 70.4 % (5,165 votes) to 29.6 % (2,176 votes) for Stephens, the lowest vote total for any incumbent running for reelection to the State Assembly that day.

However, in 2005, Democrat Byron Brown was elected the city's first African - American mayor in a landslide (64 % — 27 %) over Republican Kevin Helfer, who ran on a conservative platform.

In the 1996 local elections, a year before Tony Blair's first landslide, even the broken Tories achieved 29 per cent of the vote — six points more than Labour on Thursday.

Mr. Tillman said Thursday he was pleased to still have Mr. Krupski's name on the ballot as he seeks re-election to the Legislature post he won in a landslide this January, something he believes will help to get town residents to vote Democrat.

AP Photo / Evan Vucci Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) has formed an alumni association of members defeated in the landslide 2010 election in an effort to capitalize on their political knowledge and connections to help the party regain the House majority next November.

They promised a referendum on it in their 1997 general election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair following his landslide victory, saying he wanted to keep the link between MPs and their constituencies.